taking note of your recommendations! and quite grateful for "conversational writing style that nevertheless contains arguments" because that's much less intimidating. i liked lewis because he's a lovely writer and also quite easy to follow without any kind of background in theology, but assumed that his informal approach was probably different from A Serious Academic Work with millions of footnotes and endnotes and references to other weighty Serious Academic Works. that sort of thing is awesome when reading within your field, and terrifying outside of it.